Ken Melville
| Ken Melville | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Peter Kennedy Melville | ||
| Date of birth | 11 February 1931 | ||
| Date of death | 18 September 2024 (aged 93) | ||
| Original team(s) | University Blacks (VAFA) | ||
| Height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1953–1956 | Melbourne | 71 (1) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1956. | |||
| Career highlights | |||
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Peter Kennedy Melville (11 February 1931 - 18 September 2024) was a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Recruited from Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA) club University Blacks, Melville debuted for Melbourne in 1953 during the early period of Melbourne's golden era. He was a member of the 1955 and 1956 premiership teams before retiring at the end of the 1956 VFL season.
Melville became a Presbyterian minister, serving in Stepney, London in the 1950s[1] and then at Benalla from 1961 to 1964.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Ken Melville". Demonwiki.
- ^ "Our History". Benalla Presbyterian Church. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
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Categories:
- 1931 births
- 2024 deaths
- Melbourne Football Club players
- Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Trophy winners
- University Blacks Football Club players
- Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state)
- Melbourne Football Club premiership players
- VFL/AFL premiership players
- 20th-century Australian Presbyterian ministers
- 20th-century English Presbyterian ministers
- Australian rules biography, 1930s birth stubs